#17 April - the International Day of #PeasantStruggles . A moment when we commemorate the 28th anniversary of the El Dorado de Carajás Massacre in Brazil and denounce the impunity with which peasant are harassed, attacked and criminalized around the world. viacampesina.org/en/internation…

Tomorrow, join us for a discussion with Michael Fakhri, UN SR on Right to Food, highlight the use of starvation as a weapon in #Palestine and advocate for people's right to food. #Gaza

Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Latest 'Peasant Voices' edition by La Via Campesina (Official EN) highlights the urgent call to integrate #UNDROP into national legislation. It also explores an alternative global trade framework amid peasant discontent over rising costs and debts. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/4S4EPR…

#Ultraprocessedfood , a “corporate diet”, what are the implications for people’s #health and #foodsovereignty ? New edition nyeleni.org/en/category/ne…

The rise of #UltraProcessedFoods , fueled by industrial expansion and corporate power, is reshaping our diets. Fresh, home-cooked meals are being replaced, leading to homogenized dietary patterns and lost culinary traditions. Info Nyéléni

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From his $50m home in Dubai, Tanzanian agri-billionaire Mo Dewji tells Forbes about his plan to get 100,000 ha of land (displacing dozens of villages) for sugar and cereal plantations in Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique.
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My remarks a few weeks ago to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Gaza. The international community has done nothing to prevent Israel's campaign on genocide and starvation. The world's governments are complicit. It is time to sanction Israel to ensure an immediate ceasefire.

'Anticolonial Struggles in the Global South: A Peasant's Perspective' conference on March 14 in Geneva, where our members from Niger, Colombia, Haiti, Palestine shared testimonies about the impact of a neoliberal economic framework on their food sovereignty.

A UN expert says the US is complicit in the ‘political act’ to starve Gaza, after a new report predicted famine is imminent in the north.

📢In response to farmers’ protests, the European Commission proposals must go further to ensure fair prices and a CAP based on market regulation!

👀Check out our press release: eurovia.org/press-releases…

👉And concrete proposals for the UTP directive:
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Today’s food inflation is not due to shortages. Right now, world cereal production is at an all-time high. What is driving high prices? The math doesn't add up without factoring in corporate power. More: grain.org/e/7120

Déjà vu, a film that depicts the chilling effects of corporate-contract farming, resonates with Indian farmer’s protests.

#DejaVu #FarmerProtest #FarmerProtest s2024 #farmersprotest #farmersprotest indelhi

sabrangindia.in/deja-vu-a-film…

Farmers’ organisations have been mobilising and occupying the streets all over the world these past months. What are their demands?🧵

#Haiti : On February 7, originally intended to mark the inauguration of the first democratically elected Haitian leader since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, is marred by the absence of elections and the breach of the agreement. viacampesina.org/en/haiti-call-…

UN food rights expert blasts rights council for turning blind eye as Israel ‘intentionally starves’ Gaza | via @genevasolutions genevasolutions.news/human-rights/u… #FoodSovereignty Michael Fakhri

UN experts condemned violence by Israeli forces, which killed about 112 people gathered to collect flour in Gaza last week, as a “massacre” amid conditions of inevitable starvation and destruction of the local food production system in Gaza. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Read our political declaration:
“With conviction we build Food Sovereignty and we fight against the crisis and violence!” #8M24 #PeasantPopularFeminism #WomenInTheStruggle #FoodSovereigntyNow #StopViolenceAgainstWomen
viacampesina.org/en/8m24-with-c…

#𝟖𝐌𝟐𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 Find out about the global actions carried out by peasant women in different parts of the world. March is a month of struggle and we say:'With conviction,we build Food Sovereignty and fight against crises and violence'. padlet.com/lvcweb/8m2024-…

#WTO 's neoliberal #agriculture policies have led to the systematic impoverishment of farmers, leading to the #farmer 's protests across #Europe .

But, removing environmental regulations won't solve the dwindling farmers’ incomes.

La Via Campesina (Official EN) Al Jazeera English
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As the @WTO convenes for #MC13 , we stand united with 50+ organizations asserting that WTO is unfit for purpose in an era of multiple crises. #EndWTO

The time is now for an alternative international trade framework based on #FoodSovereignty .

Statement⬇️
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